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Deletions and additions 2008

This section provides updates for the paper edition of the 2008 New Zealand Government Directory. Every year there are a number of significant additions and deletions to the Directory, reflecting restructuring or sale of state assets. Recent changes include:

Additions

  • Kordia Group Ltd (not previously listed)

  • Local Government Commission (not previously listed)

  • Katrina Shanks MP (replaced Dr Don Brash)

  • Lesley Soper MP (replaced Georgina Beyer)

Deletions

  • Labour MP Georgina Beyer left Parliament on 15 February 2007

  • National MP Don Brash left Parliament on 7 February just days after stepping down as leader of the National Party

  • The following political parties have de-registered: Destiny, New Zealand Family Rights Protection Party (New Zealand F.R.P.P), Outdoor Recreation NZ, Te Tawharau

  • The Chief Ombudsman, John Belgrave, died after a battle with cancer in early December 2007.

Other significant changes

  • Mangere MP Taito Phillip Field was sacked from Cabinet in February 2007 and resigned from the Labour Party to became an independent MP

  • United Future List MP Gordon Copeland resigned from United Future on 16 May 2007 and became an independent MP. He intends to establish a new party based on ‘Judeo-Christian values’

  • Conservation Minister David Benson-Pope resigned from Cabinet on 27 July 2007

  • A major Cabinet reshuffle on 31 October 2007 saw two further Ministers step down from Cabinet (Steve Maharey and David Burton), three Ministers promoted into Cabinet (Steve Chadwick, Shane Jones and Maryan Street) as well as numerous portfolio changes

  • Around the time of the Cabinet reshuffle, the following MPs had announced their intention to retire at or before the next General Election, scheduled for late 2008:
    Brian Connell, National MP for Rakaia
    Mark Blumsky, National List MP
    Marian Hobbs, Labour MP for Wellington Central
    Paul Swain, Labour MP for Rimutaka
    Steve Maharey, Labour MP for Palmerston North
    Dover Samuels, Labour List MP
    Ann Hartley, Labour List MP
    Dianne Yates, Labour List MP
    Jill Pettis, Labour List MP

  • The next General Election will be fought on new boundaries announced by the Election Commission in September 2007. Changes include a new electorate in Auckland named Botany, meaning there will be 70 electorates at the next two General Elections – 63 general seats and seven Mäori seats. There will also be 50 Party List seats.

  • New Zealand Food Safety Authority became a semi-autonomous agency attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

  • Biosecurity New Zealand became MAF Biosecurity New Zealand

  • Asure New Zealand Ltd became AsureQuality New Zealand Ltd

  • Sports Drug Agency New Zealand became Drug Free Sport NZ

  • The Police Complaints Authority has been renamed the Independent Police Conduct Authority and given new powers

Corrections

  • The Minister of Tourism is Hon Nanaia Mahuta not Dover Samuels as listed on the Ministry of Tourism page

  • There is no longer a Minister of Industry and Regional Development portfolio